Description of the Rāsa Dance
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completely freed from the lusty desire of sex life and elevated to the highest level of spiritual understanding. Generally, because they hear from Māyāvādīs and they themselves are Māyāvādīs, people become more and more implicated in sex life. The conditioned soul should hear the  rāsa-līlā  dance from an authorized spiritual master and be trained by him so that he can understand the whole situation; thus one can be elevated to the highest standard of spiritual life, otherwise one will be implicated. Material lust is a kind of heart disease, and to cure the material heart disease of the conditioned soul, it is recommended that one should hear, but not from the impersonalist rascals. If one hears from the right sources with right understanding, then his situation will be different.
Śukadeva Gosvāmī has used the word  śraddhānvita  for one who is trained in the spiritual life.  Śraddhā , or faith, is the beginning. One who has developed his faith in Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supreme Spirit Soul, can both describe and hear. Śukadeva also uses the word  anuśṛṇuyāt . One must hear from discipline succession.  Anu  means following, and  anu  means always. So one must always follow the discipline succession and not hear from any stray professional reciter, Māyāvādī or ordinary man.  Anuśṛṇuyāt  means that one must hear from an authorized person who is in the discipline succession and is always engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. When a person wants to hear in this way, then the effect will be sure. By hearing  rāsa-līlā , one will be elevated to the highest position of spiritual life.
Śukadeva Gosvāmī uses two specific words,  bhaktim  and  parām .  Bhaktim parām  means execution of devotional service above the neophyte stage. Those who are simply attracted to temple worship but do not know the philosophy of  bhakti  are in the neophyte stage. That sort of  bhakti  is not the perfectional stage. The perfectional stage of  bhakti , or devotional service, is completely free from material contamination. The most dangerous aspect of contamination is lust or sex life.  Bhaktim parām  devotional service is so potent that the more one advances in this line, the more he loses his attraction for material life. One who is actually deriving benefit from hearing  rāsa-līlā  dance surely achieves the transcendental position. He surely loses all traces of lust in his heart.
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākur points out that according to  Bhagavad-gītā , the Brahmā day and Brahmā night are periods of solar years expanding to 4,300,000 multiplied by 1,000. According to Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākur, the  rāsa  dance was performed during the long period of Brahmā's night, but the  gopīs  could not understand that. In order to fulfill their desire, Kṛṣṇa extended the night to cover such a great period